Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” ...

Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

From there, the transformed coca leaves are incorporated ... The Times adds: The cocaine that Stepan derives from the plants is sold exclusively to Mallinckrodt. An official for that company ...

A report published in October by the international organization found that the cultivation of coca bushes increased by 10% in Colombia in 2023, while potential cocaine production increased 53% ...

The global strategy to combat the illegal production and trade of cocaine by designating the coca plant as harmful has failed, the minister told the foreign representatives. The evidence is ...

A third wrote: “Coca-Cola is Coca (the South American plant cocaine is derived from) and Kola (kola nut, a stimulant from West Africa). Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine but not anymore ...

Efforts to strangle early coca production experiments in Colón and Olancho, the departments where the plant was first detected ... “rustic” and designed only to process coca leaves into cocaine paste, ...

Used not only for cocaine, the coca leaf is also chewed as a stimulant in countries ... She argued that legalisation was the ...

Used not only for cocaine, the coca leaf is also chewed as a stimulant ... the only way to stop drug traffickers monopolising the plant -- forcing rural communities to grow it for them, and ...